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kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 17:22

I am just wondering when you do scanning and adding images from both tvdb and tmdb is there anyway to stop an actor image to carry over if there is a image of the actual actor on tmdb but on tvdb its a role specific picture. Is there a way to stop kodi from carrying over the actor image from one of the sources since i'd like to keep tmdb image actors with tmdb and tvdb image actors with their roles on tvdb and not have it carry over to tmdb or the movies excetra sicne tvdb and tmdb have very different images regarding actors and characters.

Sorry not sure if this makes sense or not.

kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 17:23

I meant when you add a show and movies not just scan actors and images sorry for not being clear in the post above.

kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 17:29

Also i am using local nfo only not tvdb scraper and tmdb scraper in general.

**Karellen** · 2024-07-10, 20:44

How are you creating the local nfo - a media manager? Media managers should be downloading the artwork for you.
If you aren't using scrapers, then how are the images being overwritten?

If you are using local info, then you should create an .actors folder and save the preferred image in there.
You can see the .actors folder in the images on these pages... https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork
Actors are named with an underscore replacing spaces. eg Bruce Willis = Bruce_Willis

kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 20:59

i am using 2 diffent media mangers. For some reason when i add a tv show example Cars Toons and the role picture is shown example Larry Cable Guy plays Mater and it has corrrect image Mater for that show but when i add a diffenrt show with same actor with the actual actor image it carries over the image from the role picture to the actor image even though i have the nfos saved with the correct image for each actor. and they are underscored.

**Karellen**

(2024-07-10, 20:59)kolbdog32 Wrote: but when i add a diffenrt show with same actor

Yea, that can be a problem. I have that problem in my own library.
There is no quick fix to that unfortunately. You just need to copy the actor image you want to keep into the other shows/movies where that actor appears.
When you view actors in Kodi, the image is checked in the .actors folder and if it is different to the currently cached image, it will be updated.

Kodi really needs a centralised actors folder, but there is no developer willing to take on the task.

kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 21:07

should i put all actors in same folder instead of in the actor tv show folder is that why they are carrying over?

kolbdog32 · 2024-07-10, 21:09

I do appreciate you telling me what to do for that since i normally dont view actors on kodi but i just started to recently.

**Karellen** · 2024-07-10, 21:19

(2024-07-10, 21:07)kolbdog32 Wrote: should i put all actors in same folder instead of in the actor tv show folder

No. There is no centralised actors folder feature in Kodi.

**jbinkley60** · 2024-07-11, 00:53

(2024-07-10, 21:03)Karellen Wrote: Kodi really needs a centralised actors folder, but there is no developer willing to take on the task.

With Mezzmo it runs a centralized folder for actor images and I wrote a utility which can pull from TMDB and IMDB to update missing images and avoid this type of duplication. It tracks when the last time an actor was checked at TMDB and IMDb for a missing image and will cycle through the oldest ones first. It is great for getting new actor artwork which has been added to TMDB / IMDb without the need for rescraping your media. It can check up to 1,000 images per run and prefers TMDB over IMDB if an image is found in both. It also provides a summary after each run.

I am trying to think if I can adapt any of this code to KS Cleaner or similar to do some form of dupe checking where the images are different for an actor. I don't think I can because even though I could detect an actor having multiple actor_ids values in the actor table, the image link will be different due to Kodi storing them in different folder. I could possibly key off of just the file name portion and not the path but all that would do is give the user a list of movies / episodes an actor starred in.

If you can think of anything let me know.

Jeff

**Karellen**

(2024-07-11, 00:53)jbinkley60 Wrote: I am trying to think if I can adapt any of this code to KS Cleaner

Ha, can you adapt it to Kodi core Wink

Different actors with the same name is an issue that comes to mind
The other problem that may be encountered... Lets say you decide to look up an actor. He is listed as appearing in 37 movies/tv shows, so his image is saved 37 times. If you delete 36 of those images, then the actors image will also be deleted from the GUI until you happen to display the movie that still contains the image, and it will be recached.

**Karellen** · 2024-07-11, 01:11

Edit^

**scott967** · 2024-07-11, 02:18

I think Media Companion will let you place actor thumbs in individual actor folders in an actor_info folder tree, and then write the path to that thumb in the nfo.

scott s.
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**jbinkley60**

(2024-07-11, 01:09)Karellen Wrote: Different actors with the same name is an issue that comes to mind

This is a problem I deal with too. Fortunately it doesn't happen too often because actors will often use slight variations in spelling, middle initials and such. They few that I have run into I can easily edit them in the Mezzmo GUI to make one of them distinct and then point it at a different actor image file. I've never come up with a better solution so far.

Jeff